Youth! ere thou be flown away. <br />Surely one last boon to-day <br />Thou'lt bestow- <br />One last light of rapture give, <br />Rich and lordly fugitive! <br />Ere thou go. <br /> <br />What, thou canst not? What, all spent? <br />All thy spells of ravishment <br />Pow'rless now? <br />Gone thy magic out of date? <br />Gone, all gone that made thee great?- <br />Follow thou!<br /><br />William Watson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-flight-of-youth/
